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IT Support for Geronimo J2EE Heats Up

2006-04-15

Covalent Technologies' CEO Mark Brewer spoke with IDN about the trends his is seeing in Geronimo adoption and use among larger corporate IT shops. To date, Covalent has some 400 commercial clients using Apache, Tomcat and AXIS throughout their enterprise. It turns out, Geronimo is not just less expensive than commercial J2EE solutions, it is also less complicated. And, users like both.

An upgraded ActiveBPEL Open Source Business Process Execution Language engine is now making it easier for a variety of enterprise Java and .NET devs to work with business-focused web services projects. IDN looks at the upgraded features and provides a link for downloading.

An upgraded ActiveBPEL Business Process Execution Language engine is now available for free download. Upgrades included XQuery and JavaScript support, as well as code samples and a number of other key ease-of-use features for devs to get into business process projects for web services. IDN takes a look at the new features and provides links to code and documentation.

An upgraded ActiveBPEL Business Process Execution Language engine is now available for free download. Upgrades included XQuery and JavaScript support, as well as code samples and a number of other key ease-of-use features for devs to get into business process projects for web services. IDN takes a look at the new features and provides links to code and documentation.

JBoss is lining up a 2-prong approach for SOA, the firm told attendees at its JBoss Barcelona user meeting this month. First, JBoss will build up (and out) its core J2EE app server stack by adding the Drools Java business rules engine, as well as with enhancements to its JEMS enterprise middleware system. Second, JBoss' SOA end-to-end vision will also require partnerships with key enterprise software firms, with Microsoft just the first. IDN talks with a JBoss exec to get the company's 2006 SOA Roadmap.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) projects put into Open Source by Iona Technologies and LogicBlaze will collaborate on a Java Business Integration (JBI) implementation. Find out how ESB cooperation may make it easier for to design and deploy an Open Source ESB option.

IBM next month offers services for Geronimo, the Open Source J2EE app server. News that IBM will help users with Open Source J2EE comes the same week that Big Blue announced enhancements to its marquis WebsphereMQ J2EE line of software. What goes on? One IBM exec told Integration Developer News, it's a sign that Websphere is "overkill" for some mid-sized IT shops, and that "all Java is a good thing," even if not IBM's.

A new Eclipse plug-in will be released in August that should speed up how Java/J2EE devs can map their applications code to underlying SQL databases. See why the JSR220-ORM project lead says object-relational mapping technologies are the "last missing piece" for getting rid of the pain Java/J2EE devs face when building complex apps.

Hibernate 3.0, the latest persistence technology for Java, is available as an Open Source download. Get a rundown on the latest capabilities for data mapping between object, relational and even XML data resources, and a look into the future of EJB 3.0 architectures.

ESBs are helping telcos grapple with their latest core mania - convergence. At telcos these days it's is all about getting data, services, provisioning, voice, video systems to work better with one another. IDN looks at how Iona Technologies mixing their Artix extensible Enterprise Service Bus with legacy-savvy reliability and quality-of-service expertise to change how telcos compute.

Microsoft .NET devs can now download a free and Open Source IDE for code creation, testing, auto-insertion, XML previews, and debugging. It even come with an implementation of Windows Forms. Get the latest download and details on how the #develop IDE project may change the nature of .NET development.